Expertise

Why not share your expertise through the TAA website and our associated groups?

Online Directory of CVs

The TAA online Directory of CVs provides a valuable source of consultancy expertise available within the membership, which is available to consultancy firms and potential employers. The New Directory contains CVs for those TAA members who have uploaded their information to indicate their availability for assignments.

Career Summaries of Members

These pages enable TAA members to enter brief descriptions of their careers, in order to illustrate the breadth of experience and skills available within the Association. Read more

Technical Advisors

The TAA membership includes a wealth of technical expertise, accumulated throughout the developing world, some extending back several decades. Many members have volunteered as "Technical Advisors, so that their unique expertise may be shared. They can be accessed through the Directory or via their Career Summaries.

Their help could be beneficial to development agencies, private companies, government agencies, NGOs and the media (press, TV and radio).

TechTalk

Through our link with AA International Ltd (a Corporate member of TAA), members listed on our Directory of CVs are registered with TechTalk and AgriTechTalk, one-stop, web-based e-advisory and mentoring services for project and programme managers, field-based technicians, farmers, foresters, horticulturalists, conservationists and all specialists engaged in food security, natural resources development and land management in developing countries.

TechTalk and AgriTechTalk offer direct agricultural and environmental advice in simple understandable English, to problems posed by subscribers whose detailed project/ programme profiles have been logged and confirmed on the web-site.Clients are charged for this service and technical advisors receive an honorarium. Read about TechTalk and AgriTechTalk.

Grassroots Africa

One of our members, Benny Dembitzer has launched Grassroots Africa. TAA members are invited to join in a voluntary capacity to provide a pool of advice and relevant practice to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers ask questions of everyday relevance to their farming practices and they will be provided with practical suggestions on how to cope. The service is being delivered in English, through intermediaries and via the internet.

Grassroots has practitioners covering a wide range of topics (crops, water, organic fertilisers, seeds preservation etc). Also registered groups of intermediaries (mainly cooperatives and self-help help groups), who have a total membership base of over 120,000 farmers. If you or your friends are interested in helping, please let Grassroots know. They want to create a critical mass that will help provide knowledge and therefore power to the weakest of all, the marginal small-holder.